The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays - Softcover

Kittredge, William

 
9781555974794: The Next Rodeo: New and Selected Essays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1555974791 ISBN 13: 9781555974794
Verlag: Graywolf Press,U.S., 2007

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William Kittredge's relationship to the spare, often unforgiving Western landscape is fraught with contradictions. Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, he has an intimate connection to the vast landscape that was once vital to his family's trade. He has also witnessed, over many decades, the depletion of the West's natural resources due to overuse. In The Next Rodeo, the author's luminous essays move effortlessly from the personal to the political. With grace and integrity, Kittredge directly confronts the myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and the love of the land.

On the heels of Kittredge's first novel, The Willow Field, published to wide critical acclaim in 2006, we are pleased to offer the best of his nonfiction writings.

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William Kittredge grew up on a cattle ranch in southeastern Oregon. He taught creative writing at the University of Montana for twenty-nine years and retired as Regents Professor of English. He now lives in Missoula, Montana.

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The Next Rodeo

New and Selected EssaysBy Kittredge, William

Graywolf Press

Copyright © 2007 Kittredge, William
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I’ve learned to think of myself as having had the luck to grow up at the tail end of a way of existing in which people lived in everyday proximity to animals on territory they knew more precisely than the patterns in the palms of their hands.
—from “Owning It All”


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Verlag
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1555974791
ISBN 13 
9781555974794
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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